The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law

The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law is a comprehensive, critical work, which analyses the state of research across the refugee law regime as a whole. Drawing together leading and emerging scholars, the Handbook provides both doctrinal and theoretical analyses of international refugee law and practice. It critiques existing law from a variety of normative positions, with several chapters identifying foundational flaws that open up space for radical rethinking. Many authors work directly in the field, and their contributions demonstrate how scholarship and practice can mutually inform each other. Contributions assess a wide range of international legal instruments relevant to refugee protection, including from international human rights law, international humanitarian law, international migration law, the law of the sea, and international and transnational criminal law. Geographically, contributors examine regional and domestic laws and practices from around the world, with 10 chapters focused on specific regions. This Handbook provides an account, as well as a critique, of the status quo, and in so doing it sets the agenda for future academic research in international refugee law.

1 - International Refugee Law in the Early Years
2 - Race, Refugees, and International Law
3 - A Feminist Appraisal of International Refugee Law
4 - Queering International Refugee Law
5 - The Politics of International Refugee Law
6 - The Ethics of International Refugee Protection
7 - Refugees as Migrants
8 - The Intersection of International Refugee Law and International Statelessness Law
9 - The Architecture of the UN Refugee Convention and Protocol
10 - The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
11 - Moving Towards an Integrated Approach of Refugee Law and Human Rights Law
12 - International Humanitarian Law and Refugee Protection
13 - Customary Refugee Law
14 - National Constitutions and Refugee Protection
15 - Regional Refugee Regimes: Africa
16 - Regional Refugee Regimes: North America
17 - Regional Refugee Regimes: Latin America
18 - Regional Refugee Regimes: Middle East
19 - Regional Refugee Regime: Europe
20 - Regional Refugee Regimes: Central Asia
21 - Regional Refugee Regimes: East Asia
22 - Regional Refugee Regimes: South Asia
23 - Regional Refugee Regimes: Southeast Asia
24 - Refugee Regimes: Oceania
25 - Sharing of Responsibilities for the International Protection of Refugees
26 - Protection at Sea and the Denial of Asylum
27 - Extraterritorial Migration Control and Deterrence
28 - The Evolution of Safe Third Country Law and Practice
29 - Human Smuggling and Refugees
30 - Human Trafficking and Refugees
31 - Refugee Status Determination
32 - Asylum Procedures
33 - Credibility, Reliability, and Evidential Assessment
34 - The International and Regional Refugee Definitions Compared
35 - UNRWA and Palestine Refugees
36 - Complementary Protection
37 - Temporary Protection and Temporary Refuge
38 - The Internal Protection Alternative
39 - Exclusion
40 - Women in Refugee Jurisprudence
41 - Child Refugees
42 - Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Refugee Claims
43 - Protecting Refugees with Disabilities
44 - Stateless Refugees
45 - Conflict Refugees
46 - Displacement in the context of Climate Change and Disasters
47 - Internal Displacement
48 - The Right to Asylum
49 - National Constitutions and the Right to Asylum
50 - Non-refoulement
51 - Non-penalization and non-criminalization
52 - The Right to Liberty
53 - The Right to Work
54 - The Right to Education
55 - The Right to Family Reunification
56 - The Digital Transformation of Refugee Governance
57 - Cessation
58 - Refugee Naturalization and Integration
59 - Reimagining Voluntary Repatriation
60 - Resettlement
61 - Onward Migration
62 - Restitution and Other Remedies for Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons
63 - The Responsibility of Armed Groups concerning Displacement
64 - The Accountability of International Organizations in Refugee and Migration Law
65 - Border Crimes as Crimes against Humanity

Cathryn Costello is Andrew W Mellon Professor of Refugee and Migration Law at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford (2013-present); Professor of Fundamental Rights and Co-Director of the Centre for Fundamental Rights at the Hertie School of Governance, Berlin (2020-present); and Professor II at the University of Oslo (2018-present). She has published widely on international refugee and migration law, focusing in particular on intersections with human and labour rights. Her research has been supported by a number of prestigious grants, including an individual European Research Council grant (RefMig 2017-2022). Michelle Foster is a Professor and the inaugural Director of the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness at Melbourne Law School. Michelle has published widely in international refugee law, human rights and statelessness, including International Refugee Law and Socio-Economic Rights: Refuge from Deprivation (CUP, 2007), with James C. Hathaway, The Law of Refugee Status, Second Edition, (CUP, 2014), and with Hélène Lambert, International Refugee Law and the Protection of Stateless Persons (OUP 2019). Michelle is an Advisory Board Member of the Melbourne Journal of International Law, and Editor in Chief (with Dr Laura van Waas) of the Statelessness and Citizenship Review. Jane McAdam AO is Scientia Professor of Law and Director of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law at UNSW Sydney. She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law. She publishes widely in international refugee law and forced migration, with a particular focus on mobility in the context of climate change and disasters. Professor McAdam is joint Editor-in-Chief of the leading International Journal of Refugee Law. In 2017, she was awarded the Calouste Gulbenkian Prize for Human Rights, becoming the first Australian recipient of the award. In 2021, she was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) 'for distinguished service to international refugee law, particularly to climate change and the displacement of people'.